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title: In 2022 two protesters threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's «Sunflowers»… — Climate: hot summers and hot arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2022 two protesters threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's «Sunflowers» in London; the painting was behind glass and was not damaged, news reports said. Who acts: two protesters, painting, news reports. A sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics course of Mova's pr
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# Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 18

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In 2022 two protesters threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's «Sunflowers» in London; the painting was behind glass and was not damaged, news reports said.

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**Who acts:** two protesters, painting, news reports · **What happens:** throw, be, not damage, say · **To what, where:** tomato soup, 2022, glass · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two protesters, painting, news reports), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:18
# text = In 2022 two protesters threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's «Sunflowers» in London; the painting was behind glass and was not damaged, news reports said.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	protesters	protester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Sunflowers	sunflower	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | two protesters | tomato soup |  | 2022 |  | at Van's Sunflowers; in London | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent soup=Theme in 2022=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the painting |  |  | glass |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **damage** | past · passive | two protesters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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